If you need to know one thing about us, it’s that we are all about hand sanitizing stations. They are a key part of a complete hand hygiene promotion campaign that combines strong visual and textual communications with a physical…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Healthcare Graphics Need Help: How Can We Speak the Same Language When There’s So Many?
One giant barrier to health communication is the fact that as you try to reach a broader and broader audience, the chances of them speaking the same language as you plummet. We simply can’t expect everyone to communicate in the…
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Healthcare Graphics Need Help: Standardization Isn’t Everything.
We just stumbled upon this slide show – it’s a summary of a project to standardize signage for infection control over a number of hospitals. The hospital system wanted to do so in order to reduce rates of multidrug-resistant infections…
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Working Together Will Take Time – Until Then, Symbols Will Recruit Help
Organizations in the United States and Canada have recently announced that their food safety regimes are “mutually formally recognized” as being “comparable” to each other, and this is huge news. It says that such co-operation – the opposite of silo-thinking…
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Computers, Infection Control, and Usability: How Human Factors Can Help If We Work Together.
The field of computing has come a very long way. From basic, obscure academic theory in the 1940s to industry in the 1970s, and homes in the 1990s, they are used everywhere today – you probably have one in your…
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